Today's question: Where should Rice be allowed to coach again?

Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times: Throwing balls and tantrums in the name of basketball? My guess is Mike Rice has a bright future as an ESPN analyst--oh wait, that was Bob Knight.

Unfortunately, Rice faces a tough future but not because he can't rehabilitate himself from his obvious anger management issues. It all starts with a good publicist, a 12-step program, some volunteer work and a booking on Oprah. Rice's biggest problem is that he had a losing record at Rutgers. People generally forgive winners, not losers.

Knight overcame his firing at Indiana for various choke-hold moves by becoming head coach at Texas Tech. Rice won't work anywhere for a long time because he's probably not a good coach. His best route is starting over with a minimum-security prison team and working his way up to assistant coach in the Italian League. Maybe Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti, who was fired Friday for his role in this scandal, can join forces with Rice on a cook book warning of the dangers of pouring water on a grease fire.

Keith Groller, Allentown Morning Call: Time, remorse, rehab, and maybe even a new book, tend to heal a lot of wounds.

If Mike Rice or Tim Pernetti express the proper amount of remorse, especially Rice, they will work in college athletics again, but not at the Division I level and not in high-profile positions. It’s hard to imagine either being a head coach or athletic director again, anywhere.

And, obviously, any school that hires either of these two will do so without a press conference or press release to bring attention.

We’ve seen people rehabilitate themselves to a position of prominence before, and Rice and Pernetti were impressive enough people at some point to earn the positions they had.

But it will be a long, obscure road back in this case.

Coley Harvey, Orlando Sentinel: Mike Rice, the troubled now former Rutgers men’s basketball coach, should pack his bags, change the name on his passport and fly to a faraway country. Only then will he have a slim-to-good chance of finding future employment of any kind.

As for his former boss, who too got axed by the surprisingly sharp sword of a bumbling and befuddling Scarlet Knights administration, Tim Pernetti could eventually find his way back to Division I athletics.

The pair were let go last week after practice video surfaced showing Rice kicking players, shoving them, hurling basketballs at their heads and calling them quite a few words in the foul-language dictionary. Pernetti, Rutgers’ now-former athletics director, fired Rice following public outcry about the video. Pernetti has since said he wanted Rice gone after watching the video last November.

If Pernetti can prove his deliberate firing pace was the result of taking orders from above, he may survive. Foul-mouth Rice, however, won’t be working in college sports again.